Tag Archives: wordpress

WordPress 3.3 Beta 3 is now available! The release candidate has been moved to mid-November and the launch date has been set to 29th of November. Test your themes and plugins against the third beta and report a bug if you found it. Also note that WordPress 3.3 is shipping with jQuery 1.7. You can … Permalink

Create a Typography Based WordPress Blog Theme is a new tutorial by Chris Spooner on Line25. Chris started the tutorial way back from the design stage, then over to HTML5 and CSS3 coding, and now this seems to be the final part bringing it all together into a full-blown WordPress theme. Permalink Permalink

In today’s edition of WordPress Internals we are going to dig into the WordPress Rewrite API. Exploring its inner workings and mechanisms should allow us to understand WordPress better, why it does what it does and how it does it. Have you ever wondered how the heck does WordPress take /2011/10/15/wordpress-rewrites-ftw and renders that exact … Permalink

Building WordPress Themes You Can Sell by Sawyer Hollenshead for Smashing Magazine describes the process of entering the theme market. Sawyer writes about his mistakes and covers some great tips for young developers hungry to make money from WordPress themes. Child themes, theme options, shortcodes, advertising and social networking options are covered as well. Permalink Permalink

What the hell is scaling anyway? Ability to handle high web traffic. Ability to deal with tons of file uploads, and tons of data in the database. Ability to rapidly deploy lots of blogs. A systematized process for quality assurance. A dummy proof admin interface and a support system for the people using the system. …

As much as we all hate shortcodes in WordPress, there are times we simply have to use them, like the Syntax Highlighter Evolved plugin which is definitely one of the best out there. But what happens when you don’t want to highlight your source code any longer? What happens if you want to disable the … Permalink

Joost de Valk has published some great questions and answers about SEO and WordPress on his blog. Joost used his Facebook page to gather questions from his fans and followers for 24 hours (around 50 questions were posted) and then answered some of them in a post on his website. We think the idea is … Permalink

In this video Andrew Nacin and Otto Wood (who both work on the WordPress core) gave a great talk at WordCamp Montreal a few of weeks ago. The presentation was called “Advanced Topics in WordPress Development” where andrew and Otto covered some real cool advanced APIs. They talk and share code snippets on correct usage … Permalink

Our friends over at WPMU.org have recently published a list of Halloween plugins for WordPress, so if you’re running a WordPress website, make sure you grab yourself one of them. Bats, cats, pumpkins and more, although we had trouble running some of them due to some javascript conflicts. Hope you’re enjoying Halloween! P.S. We’re trying … Permalink